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boot fair

boot fair noun: a market fair with sellers operating out of the boots (trunks) of their cars; a market requiring little more than a meet.

boot fair: a market fair with sellers operating out of the boots (trunks) of their cars; a market requiring...
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Noun

boot fair (plural boot fairs)

  1. A market fair with sellers operating out of the boots (trunks) of their cars; a market requiring little more than a meet.
    • Near-synonyms: swap meet, flea market
    • And then when the boot fair phenomenon hit us, in the — I think it was in the eighties, you know, not that long ago — and I saw these strange objects, rusty objects, poking their heads out of rusty buckets. I was hooked.2015, Ron Geesin, Excerpt from: Ron Geesin: An Improvised Life

Synonyms of boot fair

Forms of boot fair

pluralboot fairs

Questions about boot fair

What does boot fair mean?
Boot fair means a market fair with sellers operating out of the boots (trunks) of their cars; a market requiring little more than a meet.
What part of speech is boot fair?
Boot fair is a noun.
What is the plural of boot fair?
The plural of boot fair is boot fairs.

Words near boot fair in the dictionary

  1. boot crimps
  2. boot cut
  3. boot cuts
  4. boot disk
  5. boot disks
  6. boot fair
  7. boot fairs
  8. Boot Hill
  9. boot jack
  10. boot knife
  11. boot knives

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